The beaten path:When volume dropped by 60 percent, Reed Dillon stuck with his vision to help Reed Dillon & Associates rebound

摘要

There's a look - a feel, a mood, something you can't quite pin down when an outdoor space just does it for you. In a way, it's like trying to describe how chocolate tastes. You know you love it, and when you want chocolate, nothing else will do. A similar emotion is what prompts a client to call to Reed Dillon & Associates in Lawrence, Kan. "People hire us because of the aesthetic we bring to the project, so they are not shopping it," says Reed Dillon, who founded the business in 1996 after running adifferent Houston-based firm, Ruckel/Dillon, for 13 years.The seasoned landscape architect is called on for unique high-end projects in the greater Kansas City area, and throughout the country. (One of his special projects was for a Mission Hills home on the Smithsonian Archive of Significant American Gardens.)